No sword to bury : Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II

by: Odo, Franklin

Publication date: 2004

Topics: Pearl Harbor, Attack on (Hawaii : 1941), World War (1939-1945), Japanese Americans -- Hawaii, Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941, World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General, Ethnic relations, Japanese Americans, Hawaii -- Ethnic relations, Hawaii

Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; digital-library-of-japanese-american-incarceration; americana

Digitizing sponsor: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program

Contributor: Densho

Language: English

1 online resource (328 pages) :

When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In No Sword to Bury, Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid oral histories that reca

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-314) and index

The making of a model minority -- Immigrant parents -- Generation on trial: the 1920s -- Before the fire: the 1930s -- Pearl Harbor -- Hawai'i territorial guard -- The varsity victory volunteers -- Photo gallery -- Schofield barracks -- The front lines: battlefront and home front -- After the war

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